Hi, I really love this mod. Best implementation of configurable inserters on the mod portal.
I appreciate that we can use the settings to limit the adjustments to taste by taking out certain technologies, and personally I only enable near inserters and diagonal inserters. However, this means that there is no way to let long inserters pick up/drop from the tile right next to them. With the long inserters technology enabled they gain this ability, but then regular inserters are able to do everything a long inserter can and better so I'd rather not.
Would it be possible to add a new tech, disabled by default, that when researched lets long inserters access near tiles? Thank you very much.

I'm glad you like the mod :)
And makes sense. While I'm currently not working on new features for the mod, I do have a partial implementation for a map setting to change how the long inserters technologies affect inserter range already. So basically instead of there being a new technology you could change the long inserters technology to only extend the range of inserters inwards, but not outwards. That's what I have in mind currently, not guaranteed it would look exactly like that, but I would like this feature in one way or another in a future version.

Would also really like it if you added this. I've been looking for ages for a mod that simply allows my long handed inserters to take and place items one block away. I use the side insertion but never use the diagonals either.